NTSB Accidents

The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during takeoff roll, which resulted in an on ground collision with an airport sign.

The pilot’s inadequate compensation for a wind gust that ballooned the airplane during the landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing. The wind gust was a factor.

The pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in porpoising and collapse of the nose landing gear.

The pilot’s inadequate performance planning and failure to abort the takeoff.

The pilot failed to maintain directional control while taxiing after landing. A factor was the runway sign.

The pilot’s failure to retract the amphibious floatplane’s landing gear during a water landing.

The pilot’s poor in-flight planning to make an off airport precautionary landing and his failure to maintain clearance from the construction equipment during the landing roll. Contributing to the accident was the construction equipment.

The oil starvation and failure of the number one piston connecting rod and bearing that was due to the fragmentation of the number two main bearing, which then obstructed the engine oil pickup tube and restricted the flow of oil through the engine.

The pilot’s poor fuel management.